LIGHT + TECH 117 OTHER KEY AREAS
Boiler House North and Boiler House South WilkinsonEyre created a series of contemporary entrances, event, and retail spaces within what was essentially a pair of raw industrial shells. The lighting plays up the retained industrial character, revealing the texture and colour of the authentic red brick walls and timber finishes while highlighting the new modern structural steelwork. Here the nature of the materials has influenced the lighting outcome. The darker finishes and exposed brick provide little interreflection, creating a moodier, high-contrast urban ambience.
Heritage spaces
The goal in lighting the following important heritage spaces was to reinstate the lighting in keeping with the original design intent as far as possible while adding a discreet extra layer of architectural lighting and control (where needed) to enable them to be used flexibly for events.
Directors Entrance The original access to the control rooms and boiler house for the directors of the power station dates from 1930–1931. It was originally lit with several statement art deco fixtures, some of which had been removed from the site. Speirs Major created replicas of the missing heritage fixtures based on photographs and drawings, and also restored and upgraded the interior wall sconces, lanterns and pendants found on-site with LED technology.
Control Room A Built between 1929 and 1931, this dramatic Grade II* listed space had been entirely artificially lit since World War II, when the original Art Deco skylights were blacked out. Restoring and refurbishing the elegant glass structures has once again flooded the space with natural light. Backlighting has been introduced externally to maintain the effect after dark. The original large art deco lozenge-shaped fixtures have also been reinstated, having been refurbished and upgraded with LED lighting, along with the unique backlit switching control diagrams and buttons, and prismatic wall lanterns along the back route.
Control Room B Dating from the 1960s, this is an extremely rare and therefore historically highly sensitive example of a modernist control room. The original lighting has been reinstated as far as possible, including a central cove that now houses full colour-change LED battens in place of the original fluorescent lamps, uplighting the sofit and providing flexibility to adapt the space for events. The mid-century opaline light boxes have been restored and upgraded with LEDs and, in common with the other heritage spaces, additional concealed high-level functional light has been added.
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